Do you know...Lipizzaner?

When we visit a new place we always have a rather random assortment of things we would like to do while there. Our list for Johannesburg was no different and looked like this:

Find a new coffee shop every morning and have coffee there
Check out a local drug store for new types of OTC medication and buy more wrinkle cream
Eat lots of salads and drink lots of wine
Go to the zoo
Try out the new Gautrain
Buy MB a birthday present
CHEDDAR CHEESE
Eat Indian Food
See some elephants
Buy a kite

What was not on our list was go to a horse show but funny how things happen. I was googling "fun things to do with kids in South Africa" and this horse show came up. I thought Orion might like to check out the horses and it was offered on a Sunday morning - perfect for us. Eric looked at me as if I was crazy - a horse show...???!!! I explained to him that it was some fancy type of horses that are world famous. I didn't really know what I was talking about but whatever. So on a beautiful Sunday morning we made our way out to the country to this amazing place that trains and performs the only recognized Lippizzaner horses outside of Vienna! The South African Lipizzaners...you should check them out!

The riding arena...we sat in the very front row

After the show you get to feed the horses! They are huge!

Pretty horses

Such perfect timing

Holy smokes batman! That's impressive